1.   The company increased imports in order to cut domestic production costs.

2.   However, individual members could be faced with a deterioration in their balance of trade if the trade creation effect were to increase imports more than exports.

3.   As the month winds down, Korean companies may increase imports of key raw materials such as silicon for the chip industry, auto parts and crude oil.

4.   As sales increase, companies will increase imports of raw materials used at the beginning of the production process.

5.   But increasing tobacco imports, more lawsuits and decreasing cigarette consumption have forced quota cuts.

6.   Clinton administration officials have repeatedly called on the Japanese government to increase imports, while limiting export growth.

7.   Economists said the surge appeared to reflect deliveries of deliveries of Airbus aircraft to the United States as well as increased automobile imports, especially from Germany.

8.   For Hashimoto, a deal requiring Japan to increase its imports of parts is politically far more difficult than agreeing to buy parts abroad.

9.   He was the first retailer to use private label goods extensively and he has pushed to increase imports of lower-cost foreign goods.

10.   Higher demand has increased imports and widened the trade deficit, economists said.